Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 32
January 6, 2023
"We have to keep the channels in ourselves open to pain. At the same time it is essential that true..."
- May Sarton
"Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…"
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
- Alfred Tennyson
heavensghost:
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You C...
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
January 5, 2023
theglasschild:Because when a heart gets broken, it’s wide...
Because when a heart gets broken, it’s wide open.
When a heart gets broken, it’s wide open to take in and give out. To learn and to grow, stronger and wiser, and an open heart is a brave heart because it can feel and hear and see it all. An open heart is a brave heart, because it knows there’s no turning back. Only bravely facing forward, one foot in front of the other, slowly moving on to something better, something new.
This was the year I learned to no longer depend on other people to get by, nor be stubbornly independent without any help from anyone or anything.
This was the year I instead learned to say: you can depend on me. I will be your stability, you can always count on me.
I said it to myself and to others, over and over until I believed it myself, and I made a promise to always know that I can count on myself to simply make things work.
and i will stand like a lighthouse in the storm and repeat over and over
you can depend on me.
// listen to a reading of “The Year I Changed My Own Character” from my new book on the new podcast episode here.
